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The Moor Music Festival announces entertainment in The Green Room

burlesque, VJs, grafitti art, projection installations, films, and more

By Scott Williams | Published:

The Moor Music Festival 2008 - The Long Blondes
Photo credit: Luke Seagrave


The Moor Music Festival which is an independent small festival set on a hillside in the countryside between Leeds and Bradford, near Ilkley, West Yorkshire from Thursday 7th to Saturday 9th August has announced some of the entertainment on offer in The Green Room Tent.

BestJoined Up resident artists have been curated to show in the Green Room Tent at this year's festival and will be creating live art over the weekend, with the tent also hosting various forms of art, film and performance. The audience too are invited to participate with daily opportunities to create their own art work. Set within a 1920's style conservatory offering tea and cake until very late, festival goers can play a game of chess or read a book from the library while enjoying the acts this year.

There will be customisable graffiti tables and larger than life installations from Mail Service 541. Pete Bamford will be laser tagging, and projection bomber Dave Lynch will be adding guerilla illuminations. Plus, experimental theatre troops and Burlesque dancers such as Celica Rouge, Rivita Von Cheese, Dagger Dames, and The Boneshakers will be performing the art of tease.

lookandlisten will be picking up where Best Joined Up leave off, with a tour round the world's best graffiti scenes in the documentary 'Bomb It', alongside more films revealing graffiti culture.

Confirmed audio visual acts include Bombay Monkey, Dialog AV, VJ Metricpizza, VJ Chromatouch, and Liz Aigne teaming up with longtime partner DJ Quip.

The musical line-up has been confirmed and includes The Long Blondes, Forward Russia, Paul Woolford, Dan Deacon, Eddy Temple Morris, Nucleus Roots, Tim Sheridan, Matrix And Futurebound, The Grammatics, Pete Molinari, Hijak Oscar, This Et Al, The Sugars, David Thomas Broughton, Fast-T, International Trust, Stevie Wonderful, The Old Romantic Killer Band, Micky P Kerr, Paul Marshall, Dr Butlers Hatstand Medical Band, and Madam Laycock And Her Dabeno Pleasures. For the line-up details as available please click here.

There's six marquees hosting a variety of musical and visual talent including folk, rock, blues, electro, breaks, drum and bass, techno, house, indie, brit-pop, nu rave, old rave, hip hop, dubstep, reggae, dub, beatboxing, breakdancing, baton twirling, fire eating, plus visuals, multi media, silent disco, film and cinema tent, art installations, workshops, kid's space, play activities, comedy, cabaret, beer, stalls, and the return of Kids Camp.

The festival is non corporate and unsponsored, keeping an independent stance.

Tickets are on sale priced at £60 for both days, day tickets are £30, campervan tickets are £10 and under 12s free. Tickets can be purchased here

Full camping and amenities on site, disabled access, children welcome, under 12's free (accompanied by an adult).

¡Forward, Russia!